Friday, December 17, 2010

Teaching Software Engineering in College, Problem #534

At my college, a semester was 13 weeks.  At most, a class met five days a week - usually less - for an hour or so.  That means that a college semester has around 65 hours of class time.

In software development, a typical sprint is between two and four weeks - let's split the difference and go with three.  Each work week has forty hours.  That gives us 120 hours per sprint.

In other words, a college semester is equivalent to just over half a sprint.

Think about that.

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